We need to bring back some of these robust Christmas party games to our milquetoast society.

For example, '...Victorians played an altogether tougher version [of tag] in which, according to a contemporary chronicler, “it is lawful to set anything in the way for Folks to tumble over, whether it be to break Arms, Legs or Heads, ‘tis no matter.” '

But nothing beats plunging your hand into flaming bowl of brandy to grab a raisin.